In an addendum to a previous column, the director of Freedom Roads Productions, Derek Hankerson, reminds us that his group has been working with Hollywood for several years now, pitching the Fort Mose story.

“Plus we have a trailer and films already produced on Florida history,” said Derek. “More to the point, we have a script written and promo reel.”

She's arguably the most photographed, probably the most painted, non-model female in St. Augustine -- you can hear her coming long before you spot her. Like many a hearing-challenged individual Carrie Johnson speaks a bit louder than the average person.

The perks, however, are what makes her the treasure that she is. A five-minute chat, the "hug" and her beaming smile can turn a dismal mood around and make an ordinary day blissful.

At last Sunday's American Film Institute Lifetime Achievement Award, the celebrated recipient Morgan Freeman said something that made me proud to be an actor -- words to this effect: "If you are a star the people will come to see you. If you are an actor the people will come to see the story you have to tell."

He is short, bowlegged, sleeps 12 to 16 hours every day, only eats food that someone else buys, has no promise of academia, does not weigh enough to do day labor -- wouldn't if he could -- and, I am given to understand, will have these shortcomings as long as he lives.

Two days before Independence Day this year, the Fifth Annual ACCORD Freedom Trail Luncheon will honor some of American heroes in the Civil Rights movement of St. Augustine. This gathering will also commemorate the 47th anniversary of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 by hosting its celebrated speaker Dr. Dorothy Cotton.

Margo Brown, director of alumni relations for Flagler College, announced this week a memorial gathering for longtime Lincolnville resident James Robin King, Ph.D., who passed away in December. The heavy concentration of neighborhood students, many of whom were barely born when Robin began his 17-year battle with brain cancer, still know him by reputation as a man of good definition, both scholastically and personally.

My old friend Jerry Walker wrote a song with words that went: "I know a man, Bo Jangles, and he danced for you..."

I'm reminded of it now in this time when we are all about to begin bereaving and missing our friend Bernardo de Jesus, whom we lost a week ago. For 45 years he lived in Lincolnville, half of which time I listened to his stories about life and his great joy in dancing at the Elks Club on Washington Street.